[RBS] Hiring an Arab to do Contract Work

[Catriel Lev]

It seems that Marsha has hit upon an important point which is often missed with so many people being interested only in throwing around political statements about this issue!


The most important way to achieve "Jewish Labor" is for Jews to be willing to perform straightforward, honest work! If Marsha has to run after Jewish contractors for quotes and the like just for them to be willing to be gainfully employed in renovating her home, something is wrong with their standards of labor!


I hope that we can develop (or have already developed, but they just did contact Marsha) true Jewish professionals in the various fields involving "plain old labor". Once those type of Jewish professionals become widely known, there should be no problem in finding good Jewish labor to hire.


I believe that developing and publicizing such Jewish professionals will be much more effective than empty debate of political-racial issues.


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Catriel Lev
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From: rbs-bounces at cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:rbs-bounces at cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of marsha twersky
Sent: Monday, 09 July, 2012 08:40
To: Beit Shemesh; Ramat Beit Shemesh
Subject: [RBS] Why I may have to hire an Arab to do contract work in my home...

I contacted three English speaking Israelis to get a quote for contract work in my home.
Only one actually came to take notes on the project.
None have provided me with a quote and this has been going on for a long time.
Probably, if I contact a reference for an Arab worker that someone recommended, he'd come, give me a quote, and it will probably be cheaper, and he'll actually do the work.
What choice would I have?